House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked ashen as she faced reporters, the stock markets plunging on news that the House had defeated a $700 billion bailout of the U.S. financial system. Carolyn Lochhead

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• Regular folks still struggle with woes

The House's rejection of an emergency rescue plan for the nation's financial system ignites a fear-driven wave of selling in the stock market. Sam Zuckerman

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The McCain campaign is attempting to do something unheard of in the modern political era. It is not just running against the mainstream media -- it is running around it. Joe Garofoli

Driver, 40, is arrested in Mission District after cafe worker is hit while walking to a store, suffering fatal injuries. Henry K. Lee

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Kevin Ryan was seen by prosecutors on his staff as "retaliatory, explosive, non-communicative and paranoid," and his firing in December 2006 was fully justified, the Justice. Bob Egelko

• Special prosecutor to probe firings of U.S. attorneys

Scientists studying the coded signals from the lander Phoenix on the planet's arctic surface detect snow falling from clouds some two-and-a-half miles above the spacecraft. David Perlman